Dark hardwood piece cut into a teardrop shape with two holes, lying on a pale template on a bench — Teardrop-shaped dark hardwood plinth for a DIY turntable, resting on its template on a bench. Photo: johnclarkemills, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons, cropped and color-corrected. Original file.

Projects

Plans adapted from published sources. I have not built them yet.

What wood to buy for a first project

Eastern white pine and yellow poplar, from The Wood Database. I have not built with either.

A first cutting board: an edge-grain plan I have not built

A starting size you change to your lumber, and clamps from one guide that did not lab-test them. I have not glued this up.